Antònia Díaz-Carvajal

University of Barcelona | UB

Historical genetic links among similar populations can be difficult to establish. Identity by descent (IBD) analyses find genomic blocks that represent direct genealogical relationships among individuals. However, this method has rarely been applied to ancient genomes because IBD stretches are progressively fragmented by recombination and thus not...

We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula.We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming.We reveal sporadic contacts be...

This paper presents the results of a rescue archeological intervention carried out in Sima del Pozo Cerdaña, an unknown burial site in Pina de Montalgrao, Castellón, Spain. Specifically, the site is a small chasm with numerous interments from the Eneolithic Period. The carbon dating performed on a skull fragment confirms the use of this enclave to...